oh sorry MAtt.
I thought it was in there. The capacitors are standard for the voltage regulators I used. Look up the LM2940 datasheet and youĺl see they tell you to use capacitors. dont know exactly what they are for. But its standard.
http://www.datasheetarchive.com/lm2490-datasheet.html
I think they are sort of "noise-filters"...that dampen the signal in and output